What are the men's rights activist doing to help the boys soldiers of Africa?

I have no idea what they might be doing for the boy soldiers of Africa, there are some religious activists there, but there's an awful lot of straw man derailing going on at this forum. So, I can only assume that they are doing nothing as they do not answer the question.

Often times its not mens rights activists that are helping boy soldiers. It is human rights activists.

Specifically male and female right activists help only thier gender, not the whole human race.

You also forget that many of the child soldiers are also girls. People don't realize how many of them are girls. Just like many people dont realize that many boys are caught into sex trafficking as well.

Little boy soldiers? That's horrrible! Some countries are just flaming hellholes for boys and girls.

Please do not attempt to guilt trip us we have problem's in the west that need addressing before we go chasing after african countries who do not even listen to the charities that do attempt to help the child soldiers/laborers.

The only thing a third world country would listen to is direct military intervention they are not inclined to listen to the UN or the voices of charities since they know that both of them do absoloutely nothing.

Any UN development funds they get they spend on trinkets and houses for their leaders while the rest of their people starve and any campaigns by charities usually end with nothing getting accomplished.

Since MRA's lack a proper army i don't think we would be of much use in Africa.

Unlike feminists, we have problems at home to deal with before we go helping other people.

What are feminists going to do about the forced marriage, rape and enslavement of girls in Africa? Are they just going to sit at home pretending they are being oppressed?

And the correct term is "child soldiers" because actually young girls are sometimes forced into combat. I could blame this on feminism but I shan't.

Did you know that the UN is actually addressing all these problems? Somebody is already onto it.

But the UN has its flaws too, such as during the Haiti earthquake when they refused to hand out aid to males in the belief that they would selfishly squander it and keep it from their families. I lost a massive amount of respect for the UN when I read about that.

Sitting on the internet whining about feminism.

They are trying to increase their political clout at home, so that they can solve the problems in other countries.

Campaigning to get men and boys issues on the radar, taken seriously and violence against men on a par with violence against women at home and on an international level, as it should be.

“Gender Inclusive” Author Calls on UN to Establish Special Rapporteur for Violence Against Men"

By J. Steven Svoboda

Gender Inclusive: Essays on Violence, Men, and Feminist International Relations

Routledge has published a book-length collection of his essays on gender and genocide by Gendercide Watch Executive Director and Canadian Political Science Professor Adam Jones. While these articles were all previously published, and some duplication and overlap is inevitable with collections of this nature, nevertheless many of them are as a practical matter impossible to track down today, and having them all together in one place in permanent, book form is in any case highly valuable.

Jones is a longtime warrior for genuine gender equity, tirelessly advocating for the human rights community to address human rights violations in a fair and accurate manner independent of the sex of the perpetrator and the sex of the victim. The collected articles were published over a span of nearly two decades, and accordingly it is inevitable that at least some of the earlier pieces suffer from the intervening passage of time.

Having said that, Jones has throughout his career been a razor-sharp analyst as well as a highly skilled writer. Even the first articles he published still provide worthwhile reading, as with the book’s first piece, his 1990 analysis of sexism at Canada’s largest daily newspaper, the Toronto Globe and Mail.

His book has much to offer, such as the disheartening information that the right to vote is often denied to parolees, and that at least in the US, males are actually raped more often than females. Even facts we may already know—the factor most strongly correlated with being on death row is not skin color, race, ethnic origin, or IQ, but rather sex—bear repeating, and Jones is up for the task. We learn that, “Women are more likely to be dropped out of the system the further the capital punishment system progresses.” The author makes a compelling case for invoking a rarely heard phrase, “men and minorities.” While female victims are usually identified as such in media coverage, male victims routinely find themselves referred to in a way that anonymizes their sex. As the author shows, female victims even predominate in discussions of topics “in which male victimization is prominent or predominant.”

Depressingly, in considering gender and ethnic conflict in ex-Yugoslavia, Jones finds that “the United Nations and other international agencies involved in refugee evacuation have tended to accommodate themselves to the blatantly discriminatory rules laid down by Serb occupiers,” such as rules barring an male with combat potential from being evacuated. In another article, “Toward an International Politics of Gender,” Jones pointedly comments:

"If masculine privilege is so all-pervasive and absolute, we must ask (in a developed-world context at least) why it is that men live substantially shorter lives than women, kill themselves at rates vastly higher than women, absorb close to one hundred percent of the fatal casualties of society’s productive labor, and direct the majority of their violence against “their own” ranks".

Rest after the link.

Annie there are perfectly adequate answers here, if men and boys haven't got equality in their own countries which they don't, how are they supposed to be looking overseas? Its you and the other females here that are derailing the thread.

Nothing. They are way too focused on women.